Actually managed to get some real things done today. I finished a version of GCardScheme (version 0.99.0), a panel applet for
changing PCMCIA card schemes. Also managed to push out an update to my website. Had a much better day
than Wednesday/Thursday.

I have just had the worst 24 hours in recent memory. Allow
me to enumerate:

Yesterday, I am at the Bookie (the student
bookstore here at WSU) to take care of my cap and gown order
for commencement (I'm finally getting out of this pee-pee
soaked heck hole!). When I get there, I find that Monday
(the 17th) was the last day they are accepting orders.
Nowhere on any of the material they (or the University) sent
out, nor on any of the displays actually at the
Bookie, indicated anything at all about a final date. The
only notification is a clipping from Monday's campus paper
saying that "today's the last day for cap and gown orders".
grrr

This morning I had a test in my 10:35 am class. I wake
up and roll over and the alarm clock reads 10:27! I
literally bolt out of bed and make it to campus in 8 minutes
(and make it in time for the test. This wasn't so bad, as I
think I did reasonably well on the test.

Having just paid a renewal on my auto insurance, I am
acutely aware that my proof of insurance card is about to
expire. Only I cannot find the replacements they sent with
the bill. No problem, my agent (in Seattle) told me that if
I ever had a problem with my policy, I should see the local
agent here in Pullman. Considering this a problem, I go and
see him this morning. To make a long story short, he told
me that since he wasn't my agent, he couldn't help me.
grrr

I come to work and try and log into the box I'd been
using (I don't have a box "of my own" yet). No dice.
Actually looking at the issue, I find that our local systems
pseudo-person had reinstalled the box. With Mandrake! I
could live with RedHat, but Mandrake? <advocacy>Debian
on my laptop saved the day.</advocacy> Then again, a
box I can log into is preferrable to one at which I can't.
grrr

I do believe I have run afoul of Murphy's Simultenaity
Principle: "If more than one thing can go wrong, they
will all go wrong at the same time."

Oh Dark ThirtyFinally decided to poke my head out from under the proverbial rock, and try Napster.
Ye gods, this thingie is unbearably cool! I never realized that my masquerade firewall would be so useful (at least
when one is trying to keep the network traffic going in one direction...;)

Also figured out a solution the power plug on my laptop being unable to work. Popped over to ebay and got
myself a port replicator for cheap. All in all, a $20 solution to a $200 repair.

Woo hoo! I finally got around to replacing my main server yesterday. Used to be a dying 486-66 with 32 MB, now
a K6-450 with 128 MB. It is so exhilarating to do things like compile a kernel in under twenty minutes (used to
take over three hours) or run a bunch of things without touching swap at all.

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